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There’s this moment I still remember with ridiculous clarity — I was sitting at my kitchen table, surrounded by a small mountain of papers, my laptop open to yet another unfinished assignment, and a cold cup of coffee that had long lost its purpose. It was 2: 17 a. m., and...

When we talk about writing, most people imagine the initial burst of creativity — the thrill of putting thoughts on a blank page. But here’s the truth most students ( and even writers) overlook: writing isn’t really finished when you hit that last period. It’s editing that transforms a decent draft...

  On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek     Overgrazing, Overfishing, Overlogging   Chronicles of the Essays variety tend to be purposeful fabrications because they are unlike ones that relate a story, a past adventure, or even a recent dream.  Essays by the...

On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Bulgarian Adventures   Tcveti , the receptionist, bartender, waitress, and Jill of all trades at the Hotel Galant SE of Sofia, Bulgaria served the Footloose Forester his morning bottle of beer.  Бурдаско is a local...

On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   On Geezering   Young whippersnappers probably don’t like to be referred to that way, especially by old geezers who defensively show their maturity by the sounds of their creaky bones and by their yellowing teeth. ...

A film noir is a movie genre that was mostly popular in Hollywood in the 1940s. The attributes of this type of film are cynical characters who are usually doomed from the start. These movies are filmed in black and white and there are used a lot of sharp shadows. The...

On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Glass Half Full? Half Empty?     Life holds more than a few mysteries.  We can plainly see a water glass that is half full/half empty, but the question is, which is it?  Some people...

Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek     Playing Bumper Cars Around The Moon   It was a bright moon-lit night and the Footloose Forester could hardly look away as he approached the side door to his basement apartment in Auburn, California.  He was probably...

On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Searching for the Right Ingress   One of the frustrations that we all share in our lives is our personal limitation on how to broach a subject, how to open a conversation, how to respond,...

On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek     Tongue in Cheek, Pen in Hand   For some time now, the Footloose Forester has wanted to add a humorous chronicle to his collection of seminal musings. In the LegacyStories.org website that serves as...

On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   42.657, -76.211 Had the Evidence    The Wisconsin Glacier that pushed south into NE United States about 12,000 years ago left many unacknowledged gifts that are part of our everyday life today.  Geologists may quibble...

Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams   Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek    Stories, Blogs, Essays, and Peer Review      The recent decision of Facebook to encourage account holders to contribute text and photo stories in a special window of their website is an invitation to greater sharing of...

On the road...again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek     Adventures by the Numbers   The time has come whereby adventure stories of the past will sport a new look.  A small change but a modern update will be made in the way their...

Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek     Simple Answers: Complex Questions   Did you ever notice that some people in a group get irritated when you give a complex answer to a seemingly simple question? Or, conversely, when you give a simple answer to...

Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek     With Tears in My Eyes Of the many times when melancholia starts to overwhelm his senses, the Footloose Forester is often visited by a couple of stories that can easily bring tears to his eyes.  Although he...

On the road…again! Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   A to Z Word Potpourri   The Chronicles of a Footloose Forester were compiled over a number of years, one story at a time. Events, observations, encounters, and episodes were the ingredients in the mix that got filed into...

Happy To See The Sunshine by Dick Pellek Happy to see the sunshine, Happy to feel the rain, Happy to touch the blossom, Happy to know of pain. Blessed to feel the sunshine, Blessed to taste the rain, Blessed to smell the blossom, Blessed to remember the pain. Entitled to know...

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  PERSONAL HISTORY INTERVIEW PROMPTS   LIVING LEGACY PROJECT   Prepared by L. A. (Butch) Hibben, CLA This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 951-322-5977 www.circlemending.org GENERATIONS Where did your great-grandparents come from? If it was other than the United States, why did they leave their homeland? Where did they live in the United States? What did...

                                                                                                                                                            Why I know there is a God   When I see the beauty of this world, or hear the song of a bird. When the sunshine warms my earthly space, or raindrops fall upon my face When cllean      white snow blankets the trees, and frothy waves roil the seas,...